According to Google Insights for Search, which “analyzes a portion of worldwide Google web searches from all Google domains,” there was more interest in the word “news” during the month of March than any other month since July 2005. The graph below shows search volume (for the word news) on a scale from 0 to [...]
Search engines must be paying newsrooms to send them traffic. Okay, I’m sure that’s not true, but it feels like it is true when I read articles published by media companies online. Every day, I run into stories that might as well include these promotional bullet points: Please go to Google to find the web [...]
Google links to 6,597 articles related to the three stories atop Google News this morning. In the Wall Street Journal article about Jobs medical leave, you won’t find a single link to the other 174 articles that Google has found about the story. If you read the Associated Press article about the Golden Globe awards [...]
According to Google Trends, people search for the word journalism 55% less than they did six years ago. This chart shows how many searches for journalism have been made since January 2004, using the average during that month as a volume of 1. Number crunchers, feel free to take a look at the week-by-week data. [...]
